Yes - it has been confirmed - the Mises Institute forums will be closing down. Thanks for messaging me about the LibertyHQ forums, which seem quite vibrant. I commend you for starting them! To all my friends here, sorry the Institute had to let the forums go. If I was still here, I would fight to keep this community going. Unfortunately, I'm at Laissez Faire Books now. Please do keep the community together at LibertyHQ! And best of luck!

I assume that's going to the be the cover story, but do you honestly think he'd have fessed up to it if no one ever figured it out? Doubtful. I'd bet my dick this "joke" "holiday" was seen as a nice little opportunity for some utterly shameless (and by that I mean dishonest and fraudulent) self-promotion, with a perfectly plausible escape hatch if it were ever exposed.

Blatant? Sure I guess everything is blatant when it's immediately spelled out for you before you even have a chance to be fooled by it. I can almost guarantee there is no way you (especially you) would have even suspected fraud had someone not said something.

Actually, it is precisely because "Jeffrey Tucker" came out of nowhere to reply to Wheylous (and he apparently replied 14 minutes before Wheylous posted) and was promoting LibertyHQ and had knowledge of the affairs of the LvMI even though he is no longer working for it that made this a blatant April Fool's Day joke. And I would say a fairly good one. It got you, albeit not in the way it was intended to fool people.

The only one worth following is the one who leads... not the one who pulls; for it is not the direction that condemns the puller, it is the rope that he holds.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything just to see how many of you people claiming it's so obvious would have actually recognized it. Again i seriously doubt it would have been so "obvious" had my reply not been the very first one.

Oh no, its got nothing to do with being around long enough. It's the fact that I'm a genius and I think in new and creative ways that most people don't consider. I'd also be incredibly surprised if there was anyone else who had caught on to that before I showed it to them.

You're all quite welcome

At last those coming came and they never looked back
With blinding stars in their eyes but all they saw was black...

I assume that's going to the be the cover story, but do you honestly think he'd have fessed up to it if no one ever figured it out? Doubtful. I'd bet my dick this "joke" "holiday" was seen as a nice little opportunity for some utterly shameless (and by that I mean dishonest and fraudulent) self-promotion, with a perfectly plausible escape hatch if it were ever exposed.

Again. Pathetic.

how does all of the equal pathetic? the kid is like the son dr. evil never had, he's a natural. we can use him to infiltrate an austrian into the shadow governmen!

Oh no, its got nothing to do with being around long enough. It's the fact that I'm a genius and I think in new and creative ways that most people don't consider. I'd also be incredibly surprised if there was anyone else who had caught on to that before I showed it to them.

You're all quite welcome

come on dude. are you seriously going to try and claim it's a Google-esque totally ridiculous scenario that anyone and everyone would realize is fake? I never claimed to "think in new and creative ways". Hell the first tip off was his first try at creating this thread which he immediately deleted when it didn't display properly. Go to the deleted threads and see.

As I said, if the execution hadn't been so pathetic, I may not have noticed myself. And I seriously doubt there was an "APRIL FOOLS!" coming from the OP anytime soon.

like i said...nice way to fraudulently promote your website and have a perfect escape hatch if anyone catches you.

Oh no, quite the opposite. I'm just saying that only a very select few people on the planet, like myself, would be capable of even realizing that it was indeed a trick in the first place. Wheylous is indeed quite the trickster, he's known for being devious and cunning, but his mind games don't work on well trained and exceedingly intelligent people like myself are capable of discovering is trickery.

I'm sure that you didn't claim to think in new and creative ways, that was my phrasing for my unique and impressive skill set.

At last those coming came and they never looked back
With blinding stars in their eyes but all they saw was black...

Oh no, quite the opposite. I'm just saying that only a very select few people on the planet, like myself, would be capable of even realizing that it was indeed a trick in the first place. Wheylous is indeed quite the trickster, he's known for being devious and cunning, but his mind games don't work on well trained and exceedingly intelligent people like myself are capable of discovering is trickery.

I'm sure that you didn't claim to think in new and creative ways, that was my phrasing for my unique and impressive skill set.

I'd provide evidence that I was not trying to defraud you guys, but I have the impression Primetime is playing his own April Fool's joke on me. Only that unlike me, he's pulling it off a lot more believably.